All items: Wages and salary

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  Arthur H Wilton Ltd v Peebles and others EAT/835/93 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Collectively agreed pay increases implied into individual contracts

    Date:

    1 December 1994

    Where it had been the practice over many years for an employer to apply the rates of pay agreed in national negotiations between the industry's employers' association and certain trade unions, those terms were implied into the contracts of employment of individual employees, holds the EAT in Arthur H Wilton Ltd v Peebles and others.

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  Baker v Securicor Omega Express Ltd [2000] IRLB 633 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Baker v Securicor Omega Express Ltd

    Date:

    31 December 2000

    In Baker v Securicor Omega Express Ltd [2000] IRLB 633 EAT, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the employer had been in breach of contact in imposing a change from weekly to monthly pay, and the employee had been constructively dismissed. However, the dismissal was fair for some other substantial reason.

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  Clark v BET plc and another [1997] IRLR 348 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Wrongful dismissal: Damages awarded for loss of salary increases

    Date:

    15 January 1997

    The service contract of a company chief executive imposed a contractual obligation on his employer to review and provide an annual upward adjustment in salary, holds the High Court in Clark v BET plc and another.

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  Coales v John Wood & Co (Solicitors) [1986] IRLR 129 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Coales v John Wood & Co (Solicitors)

    Date:

    1 April 1986

    In Coales v John Wood & Co [1986] IRLR 129 EAT, the EAT held that the obligation on an employer to provide an employee with a written itemised pay statement at or before the time at which any payment of wages or salary is made is an absolute one and is not conditional upon the employee requesting such a statement.

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  Delaney v Staples (t/a De Montfort Recruitment) [1991] IRLR 112 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Wages Act: Pay in lieu of notice is not "wages"

    Date:

    25 January 1991

    In the first Wages Act case to come before the Court of Appeal - Delaney v Staples t/a De Montfort Recruitment - the Court rules that a payment in lieu of notice is not "wages" and so cannot be the subject of a complaint under the Act.

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  Delaney v Staples (t/a De Montfort Recruitment) [1992] IRLR 191 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • Wages Act: Pay in lieu of notice not covered by Wages Act

    Date:

    1 April 1992

    In Delaney v Staples t/a De Montfort Recruitment, the House of Lords holds that a payment in lieu of notice, paid by an employer when terminating employment without notice, is not "wages"; and so cannot be the subject of a complaint to an industrial tribunal under the Wages Act 1986.

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  Devonald v Rosser & Sons [1906] 2 KB 728 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Devonald v Rosser & Sons

    Date:

    31 December 1906

    In Devonald v Rosser & Sons [1906] 2 KB 728 CA, the Court of Appeal held that there was an implied term in a piece rate worker's contract that the employer would provide him with a reasonable amount of work.

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  Dirk Rüffert v Land Niedersachsen Case C-346/06 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • ECJ: Court rules that public contractors cannot be obliged to pay collectively agreed wage rates

    Date:

    13 May 2008

    In a controversial ruling issued in April 2008, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) found that public authorities cannot demand that companies that are awarded works contracts must pay wages to all workers (including workers posted from other countries) that are in line with rates set out in collective agreements applicable to the place of work.

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  Fairfield Ltd v Skinner [1993] IRLR 4 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Fairfield Ltd v Skinner

    Date:

    1 January 1993

    In Fairfield Ltd v Skinner [1993] IRLR 4 EAT, the EAT held that there must be justification for making a deduction from wages, even when authority has been given in the contract.

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  Hepworth Heating Ltd v Akers and others [2003] All ER (D) 33 (Jul) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Hepworth Heating Ltd v Akers and others

    Date:

    31 December 2003

    In Hepworth Heating Ltd v Akers and others [2003] All ER (D) 33 (Jul) EAT, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the employer had not used an unlawful act to compel acceptance of a cashless pay system. The employees might have been unhappy with the new terms, but there had been no duress.